BTS has the number one album in the country:
The seven-track set, which was released on April 12, starts with 230,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending April 19, according to Nielsen Music — a career-best week for BTS. Of that sum, 196,000 were in album sales — another career-high week for the South Korean pop group.
Nightjacket’s new song “You’re Trying Too Hard” can be streamed below via Stereogum.
Lizzo has expanded their 2019 tour dates.
Poolhop has released the new song “Everything in Waves” on Spotify, Apple Music, and Bandcamp.
Cokie the Clown has released a video for “Negative Reel.”
A quick reminder that we’ve got a new merch shop full of Chorus.fm and AbsolutePunk.net merch.
This week seemed to fly by at hyper-speed. In this week’s newsletter I run down the music I enjoyed this week and share a playlist of ten songs I loved, then I go through my usual media diet of movies, TV shows, and books (it was heavy on one TV show this week). The supporter Q&A post can be found here.
Democrats who preemptively declare impeachment off the table are mistakenly (or intentionally) conflating one possible end result of the impeachment process for the process itself. The Republican members of Congress who voted to open an impeachment inquiry into Nixon’s conduct didn’t necessarily want it to end in his removal from office; even up until his resignation it was an open question whether there were enough votes in the Senate to remove him. They were trying to get at the truth about the administration’s actions, and using impeachment to gather evidence. (They didn’t even limit themselves to Watergate. The committee eventually also voted on whether to impeach Nixon for the illegal bombing of Cambodia and for failure to pay taxes.)
All of this.
The 1975 performed an acoustic version of “Jesus Christ 2005 God Bless America” live at X107.5.
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Lil Dicky has released his new video for “Earth” featuring more than 29 artists including Panic! at the Disco, Halsey, Ariana Grande, and many more.
Sheryl Crow has released a new version of “Redemption Day” featuring Johnny Cash.
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Frou Frou have released their first single together since 2004. It’s called “Guitar Song (Live).”
Cage the Elephant performed “Ready to Let Go” on Colbert.
Tegan and Sara will release their new book Highschool on September 24th. Pre-orders are up on Amazon.
Modest Mouse have dropped the new song “I’m Still Here.”
And so, beginning today, customers in the U.S. who do not yet have a Prime membership or a subscription to Amazon Music Unlimited will now be able to listen to an ad-supported selection of top playlists and stations for free with Amazon Music on compatible Alexa-enabled devices.
Listening to music on your Google Home speaker right out-of-the-box seems too good to be true, right? It’s not! Starting today, YouTube Music is offering a free, ad-supported experience on Google Home speakers (or other Google Assistant-powered speakers).